Ibaitik Itsasora
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Gaza BEFORE Israel showed up
Israel is a criminal state
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Zionists in 2025… “Palestine never existed”
Zionists in 1899… “We will colonise Palestine”
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Translating Falasteen (Palestine)@translatingpal
Ten-year-old Palestinian girl Sarah Al-Bursh has defied all odds and learned to eat, drink, and write using her feet after losing both arms in an Israeli airstrike that targeted her home in northern Gaza.
With the care of her loving mother, she was able to slowly regain a sense of independence, adapting to a life she was forced into by Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Sarah is one of thousands of amputated children in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are left without access to any treatment as Israel continues to block the entry of more field hospitals, medical delegations, and lifesaving supplies.
Source: Safa News Agenc
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The dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division. America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly. President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree.
My full testimony below:
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erabiltzaileari erantzuten
I wrote about this last October in an article published in Consortium News (https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/20/scott-ritter-irans-bomb-is-real-and-its-here/)
This is why I said repeatedly that Iran was making a huge mistake posturing as a nuclear threshold state.
Yes, Tulsi said—correctly—that Iran had not made a political decision to pursue nuclear weapons capability, nor had they taken measures to acquire a nuclear bomb.
But the reality is that since last year Iran has been weeks away from having a nuclear weapon if the political decision to acquire one was made.
The President and Israel have picked on this interpretation of the data, not the one the media picked up following Tulsi’s March Congressional testimony.
This is a very complicated topic fraught with politicized nuance.
But the bottom line is Iran doesn’t have a bomb, and doesn’t appear to be trying to make a bomb.
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BREAKING: 
Iranian ballistic missile strikes Haifa, Israel
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Legitimate Targets@LegitTargets
BREAKING: THOUSANDS of IRANIANS take to the street in support of their government, amidst ISRAELI AGGRESSION.
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The mother of all Freudian slips:
“Israel has also spread chaos, terror, and suffering throughout the region”
— US Ambassador at the UN Security Council meeting on Iran.
Sometimes, the truth slips through…
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Westerners being shocked by Ayatollah Khamenei‘s old tweets where he drops calm, sharp moral lessons with a cool, poetic flair isn’t surprising. They’ve been lied to their whole lives by zionists and the treacherous Iranian diaspora who painted him as some medieval barbarian.
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If a land was promised to you then you would never run from it. That is EXACTLY what #Palestinians are doing, they are remaining in their HOMELAND.
#ZIonist Colonist #Israelis are FAKE!
#Palestinians will live in PEACE with Jews, Christians & Muslims once #Zionism is eradicated
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The great movement that the esteemed Iranian nation showed through their presence in Friday Prayers and their rallies after the [Friday] Prayers demonstrated the strength of their rationality and spirituality, along with our dear nation’s courage.
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If you haven’t done so already — read, then read again, and share widely:
Why are the “chosen people” running so fast away from their “chosen land”???
Run mf’s
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Happy Juneteenth
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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu
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BBC shelves Gaza doc over impartiality concerns
Steven McIntosh
BBC News
EPA
The BBC says it has decided not to broadcast a documentary about doctors working in Gaza, due to impartiality concerns it has surrounding the production.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack was commissioned by the BBC but produced by an independent production company. It was originally scheduled for broadcast in February, but has not yet aired on any BBC outlet.
In a statement, the BBC said it was “determined to report all aspects of the conflict in the Middle East impartially and fairly”.
Basement Films said it was “relieved that the BBC will finally allow this film to be released”. The BBC confirmed it was “transferring ownership of the film material to Basement Films”.
The production company’s founder, Ben de Pear, said earlier this week the BBC had “utterly failed” and that journalists were “being stymied and silenced”.
BBC News understands the decision to shelve the documentary was taken on Thursday, following public comments by De Pear at the Sheffield Documentary Festival, and another of the film’s directors, journalist Ramita Navai, who appeared on Radio 4’s Today discussing the war in Gaza.
Navai told the programme Israel had “become a rogue state that’s committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing and mass murdering Palestinians”. Israel has denied accusations of war crimes and genocide in Gaza.
A different documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, was pulled from iPlayer earlier this year after it emerged its 13-year-old narrator was the son of a Hamas official.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack – also known as Gaza: Medics Under Fire – is said to examine the experiences of Palestinian medics working during the war in Gaza.
The film is directed by Karim Shah, Navai and De Pear, a former editor of Channel 4 News.
In a statement on Friday, the BBC said it had commissioned the documentary over a year ago, but paused the film in April, “having made a decision that we could not broadcast the film while a review into a separate Gaza documentary was ongoing”.
“With both films coming from independent production companies, and both about Gaza, it was right to wait for any relevant findings – and put them into action – before broadcasting the film.
“However, we wanted the doctors’ voices to be heard. Our aim was to find a way to air some of the material in our news programmes, in line with our impartiality standards, before the review was published.
“For some weeks, the BBC has been working with Basement Films to find a way to tell the stories of these doctors on our platforms.
“Yesterday [Thursday], it became apparent that we have reached the end of the road with these discussions. We have come to the conclusion that broadcasting this material risked creating a perception of partiality that would not meet the high standards that the public rightly expect of the BBC.”
The corporation added that, contrary to some reports, the documentary had “not undergone the BBC’s final pre-broadcast sign-off processes”, adding: “Any film broadcast will not be a BBC film.”
It continued: “We want to thank the doctors and contributors and we are sorry we could not tell their stories. The BBC will continue to cover events in Gaza impartially.”
In its own statement, Basement Films claimed it had been given “no less than six different release dates” and the film went through a “long and repeated compliance process as well as scrupulous fact checking”.
It continued: “Our argument all along has been to tell the story of the doctors and medics as soon as possible, people whom we convinced to talk to us despite their own reservations that the BBC would ever tell their stories.”
“Although the BBC are now taking their names off this film, it will remain theirs, and we hope it serves to open up the debate on how the nation’s broadcaster covers what is happening in Gaza, and that people feel free to speak up and speak out, rather than stay silent or leave, and at some point get the journalistic leadership they deserve.”
Speaking at the Sheffield Documentary Festival on Thursday, before the decision was announced, De Pear specifically blamed director general Tim Davie for refusing to air the film.
He added: “The BBC’s primary purpose is TV news and current affairs, and if it’s failing on that it doesn’t matter what drama it makes or sports it covers,” he said, as reported by Broadcast. “It is failing as an institution. And if it’s failing on that then it needs new management.
In relation to the war, De Pear claimed staff at the BBC “are being forced to use language they don’t recognise, they are not describing something as it clearly is [for fear of impartiality] and it’s tragic”.
Responding to De Pear’s comments, a BBC spokesperson said the BBC “totally reject[s] this characterisation of our coverage”.
“The BBC has continually produced powerful journalism about this conflict. Alongside breaking news and ongoing analysis, we have produced original investigations such as those into allegations of abuse of Palestinian prisoners and Israel’s use of bunker buster bombs and in-depth documentaries including the award-winning Life and Death in Gaza, and Gaza 101.”
High-profile figures such as actress Susan Sarandon and presenter Gary Lineker have previously accused the corporation of censorship over the delay.
An open letter, which was also signed by cultural figures such as Dame Harriet Walter, Miriam Margolyes, Maxine Peake, Juliet Stevenson and Mike Leigh, said: “This is not editorial caution. It’s political suppression.”
“No news organisation should quietly decide behind closed doors whose stories are worth telling,” it continued.
“This important film should be seen by the public, and its contributors’ bravery honoured.”
‘I lost trust’ in Gaza film, says BBC boss Tim Davie
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Middle East Observer@ME_Observer_
Tehran, May 18th 2025
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A nice message to #Iran from a lovely lady.
She wants #Iran to keep at it, flatten it & get the job done. Will even help towards the cost.
She wants it flatten like #Gaza was flattened & wants #Israelis to be taught a bloody lesson.
She is braver than most Leaders. 
Ma’am
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You know israel made many of us think they were untouchable and to see this in Tel Aviv is crazy. But the chickens came home to roost!
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Hello world, today Gaza bid farewell to more than 100 martyrs, and hundreds were injured in horrific massacres and direct targeting of the tents of the displaced and those waiting for a livelihood this is our situation every day in Gaza, the sounds of bombing do not stop.
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Solar power in China will exceed ALL sources of electricity combined in the USA in 3 to 4 years. Wake up call.
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Solar in China generated ~1/3 as much as *all* U.S. generation last month. And it’s doubling every 2 years. x.com/jessepeltan/st…
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“Every statement of the EU on Israel begins with its right to defend…But Israel is no longer involved in a defensive war..”
”Israel’s attack on Iran was not a defensive http://strike.It was an unlawful and unprovoked strike designed to subvert the negotiations..”
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Egyptian border is open for Zionists
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JUST IN: 
Russian President Putin announces support for Iran and says they have the right to peaceful use of atomic energy.
“This has always been our position.”
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Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei@HussainShafiei
Israel is going to get dismantled—peace by piece.
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“I’m Israeli — and what’s happening is apartheid. One people has all the rights, the other has none. This isn’t a conflict, it’s an occupation — and it must end.”
EndTheOccupation FreePalestin
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CNN deliberately cut off an American soldier soon as he warned how we need to stop warmongering for israel.
13 years ago and it still holds true.
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The Palestinian people will never forget who stood firm with us on matter of principle, before it was fashionable to condemn the ongoing genocide. Thank you, @GaryLineker, for your principled voice.
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If you support this, or pretend this isn’t happening, you’re a sociopath.
Acyn@Acyn
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Upsetting video of a boy in Gaza saying they have to eat sand because they have no food. He walked eight hours to a food distribution point and collected two kilos of flour but was robbed by thieves.
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I watched Al-Taghriba Al-Filistinia more than twenty times before the genocide. But I couldn’t bring myself to watch it again—until last week, when I began translating the series.
Watching the scene of forced displacement at the very beginning of our 1948 Nakba broke my heart. We never imagined we would live through the same pain these days , yet here we are. Our suffering has never stopped. It only changed shape, faces, and years. The wound is still open, and we are still being torn from our homes.
Consider supporting our project to help us translate the full series.
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There is no moral difference between putting people in gas chambers and burning people in safe zones inside tents. A holocaust is happening right before our eyes and the world is silent.
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The BBC has stated that it cannot broadcast the Gaza Medics documentary, citing concerns that airing it could create the perception of bias against one side in the ongoing genocide.
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This is the eloquent, peaceful, principled family man whose rights Chuck Schumer was so reluctant to defend.
Aipamena
BreakThrough News@BTnewsroom
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Mahmoud Khalil is finally free 104 days after being abducted by ICE from his home in New York. The first thing he will do, he says, is “hug his wife and child,” whose birth he was forced to miss from behind bars.
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Israel Genocide Tracker@trackingisrael
Yesterday, one of the Iranian missiles struck the homes of Israeli army officers, owners of Tzevet Mikey, which is an “empowerment foundation” offering pre-army training courses for lone soldiers traveling to Israel to join the genocide army.
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Spanish Journalist Cristina Saavedra torches the hypocrisy of Israel.
“Israel levels 94% of Gaza’s hospitals, flattens an entire city, but whines when Iran taps one of theirs. Play victim after genocide? Pathetic.”
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Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei@HussainShafiei
Hundreds of Iranians have been killed in unprovoked Israeli airstrikes—targeting hospitals, homes, and even our Foreign Ministry. Now they’re bombing peaceful nuclear sites under IAEA inspection. That’s not self-defence. That’s terrorism. That’s a war crime.
Any Western official excusing are not peacemakers—they’re collaborators in war.
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Tensions inside Israel are exploding — sources report even the Defense Minister faced backlash during internal fights.
When you spread war, don’t be surprised when it returns home. This is just the beginning.
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Israel has lost support even from Jews! But some Arab media still promote a criminal occupying state. Al Arabiya = Netanyahu’s official mouthpiece.
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We remember how Israel blew up Gaza’s only cancer hospital (Turkish-Palestinian hospital) after occupying it for a long time and using it as a military base
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Heartbreaking: Children’s joy for receiving a bag of flour for their family in Gaza .
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Norwegian Star Aurora Sings for Palestine at a Solidarity Protest in Bergen, Norway
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JUST IN:
Russian President Putin says Israel provoked the war with Iran and they “won’t reach their goals.“
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In discussing Tucker Carlson’s demolition of Ted Cruz, I pointed out that Cruz’s foreign policy handler is Omri Ceren, a longtime Israel lobbyist and Israeli citizen aligned with Netanyahu Ceren’s sister, Merav, is an ex-Israeli Defense Min staffer who served in Mike Waltz’s NSC
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Tel Aviv, Israel. This is what it looks like when an Iranian drone strikes the Iron Dome air defense system.
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Israeli journalist Gideon Levy educating the world on the sickness that is the Israeli people!
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Palestinians are not “facing” starvation.
They are being starved to death by Israel.
Forced starvation is an act of genocide.
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In 2021, Israel bombed a house next to my sister’s, and her son Imad was injured.
His sister Layan stayed by his side, comforting his pain.
Three months ago, Israel killed Layan, my sister, and her other children — leaving Imad alone, weeping from the depths of his heart.
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From Sanaa to Tehran and Gaza you are not alone, we are with you
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Why does most of the world support Iran? Because of what Israel did here:
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Angelina Jolie’s viral Speech For the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her work helping the needy. She is always with the oppressed .
Free Palestine 
Stop the Genocide !!
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Muhammad Shehada@muhammadshehad2
Here I thoroughly expose how European govs are NOT confronting Israel’s crimes with their latest statements & baby steps; but are rahter managing optics. It’s all about saving face, not saving lives, as multiple European diplomats admitted to me!
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Why Western sanctions on Israel are a face-saving manoeuvre
Sanctions on extremist Israeli ministers, toothless EU trade reviews, and gestures on recognising Palestine all preserve, rather than challenge, the statu quo
19 June, 2025
The recent sanctions imposed by the UK and its allies on Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich were heralded in some quarters as a long-overdue moral stance against rising extremism within Israel’s leadership.
Yet beneath the surface of this headline-grabbing gesture lies a far more calculated and cynical strategy – one that reflects not a principled reckoning with Israeli impunity, but a desperate attempt by Western powers to maintain the appearance of action while enabling the very atrocities they now claim to condemn.
These carefully choreographed measures, limited in scope and hollow in consequence, reveal a deeper truth: that for all their rhetoric, these governments remain unwilling to confront the structural, societal, and institutional engines of Israel’s ongoing system of apartheid and genocidal warfare against Palestinians.
Earlier in June, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway took an unprecedented step that broke an entrenched taboo. The five governments imposed sanctions on two far-right ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government: Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. Until not long ago, this move would have been unthinkable.
Yet this seemingly bold action was met with ridicule by multiple experts, especially Israelis, who described it as “baby steps”, “cowardly”, “naïve”, or a deliberate “manoeuvre” to “let Israel off the hook,” pointing to the devil in the details.
The same can be said about the EU’s recent sudden awakening and sharpening of tone vis-à-vis Israel, according to multiple diplomats and experts who spoke to The New Arab. This includes, most prominently, the EU’s announcement in late May of a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, and whether Israel is violating Article 2 on respect for human rights.
Selective and carefully choreographed empty sanctions
Experts were quick to notice that the sanctions on Ben-Gvir and Smotrich only penalise them for “statements” and not actions or decisions, and that even the incriminating evidence was limited to their “inflammatory and extremist statements” in the West Bank and not Gaza.
Both are deliberate choices to give those governments greater room for manoeuvre. By limiting the scope to the West Bank and inciteful statements rather than actions, the UK and its partners distinguish between the two far-right ministers and the Israeli government, to take action only against the former.
Had they included “extremist statements” on Gaza, for instance, this would have incriminated the entire government, as virtually every single minister in Netanyahu’s cabinet has unambiguously made statements that amount to genocidal incitement, such as calls to nuke, starve, flatten, or depopulate Gaza.
Similarly, if the sanctions were penalising actions, such as the very settlement expansion the UK and its partners condemned in their statement, it would have implicated the government and chain of command executing those decisions.
This would have necessitated going after Netanyahu, his security cabinet, Israeli generals and officers, settler leaders, settlements’ regional councils, and other organisations involved in ethnically cleansing Palestinian lands to build settlements on top of their ruins.
At a minimum, if those countries are seriously concerned about settlement expansion, they would have complied with the ICJ advisory opinion of July 2024 on the illegality of Israel’s occupation, which necessitates banning all imports from those illegal settlements and sanctioning companies and financial institutions working there.
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Jonathan Fenton-Harvey
The sanctions also draw another clear distinction between the two ministers and Israeli society, where the UK and its partners emphasised “shared ties, values and commitment to [Israelis’] security and future”. This is despite a clear and overwhelming majority of Israelis voicing support for genocide, ethnic cleansing, and population transfer.
Furthermore, the sanctions themselves – travel bans and asset freezes – have practically no impact on the two targeted ministers, as neither was frequently travelling outside of Israel.
It is similar to the UK’s recent decision to merely suspend negotiations on another free trade agreement with Israel, while at the same time, the British prime minister was threatening, behind closed doors, the ICC chief prosecutor against issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and providing weapons and logistical and intel support to Israel.
In other words, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are easy targets for the UK and its partners to pick up on to pretend that the problem is personal – i.e. a few bad apples – rather than institutional or societal. Both ministers are beyond the pale even for most Israelis to care much about their assets or travel plans.
EU review of trade deal, but no suspension
In late May, and as a response to Israel banning all aid from entering Gaza for nearly 80 days, the EU announced a review of whether Israel is violating Article 2 on human rights of the association agreement that gives Israel a privileged partnership with the EU, its largest trading partner.
This would be, however, the third review in 12 months of the same thing. Two earlier reviews were carried out last year by EUSR Olof Skoog, both of which incriminated Israel, yet were followed by no action.
A senior European official told The New Arab the EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has said behind closed doors that “one has to be insane to think Israel isn’t violating Article 2”.
The same official added that Kallas had asked the Netherlands, which requested the third review, if they would support suspending the association agreement with Israel should the review find clear human rights violations.
However, the Dutch government said no, they only support the review and not the suspension. This means the review is merely a manoeuvre to buy time, or at best a warning shot to Israel that it’s going too far, without following that shot with any credible ultimatum.
Furthermore, two European diplomats told The New Arab that the upcoming review’s conclusions would only be delivered orally to the member states rather than in writing, to further evade compliance.
Israel has been accused of using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, with its actions labelled as genocidal by rights groups and legal experts. [Getty]
A top European Union official had told TNA last year that when he printed and compiled damning UN reports and tried to give it to EU heads of states, many refused to even take them, calling the UN “biased against Israel.” Such a move aims to maintain plausible deniability vis-à-vis Israel’s genocide.
Similarly, other efforts inside the EU to push for genuine measures against Israel have consistently hit a dead end; even when it comes to steps as simple as imposing sanctions on a couple more settlers.
Two EU officials in Brussels told The New Arab that member states keep demanding that if Europe sanctions a settler, they should sanction Hamas leaders first. They also insist that such sanctions against Hamas need to take place well in advance of punitive measures against any settlers so as not to imply any “moral equivalency” between Israel and Hamas.
Even then, European states “would keep moving the goalpost” until the initiative dies out, an EU official concluded.
Recognition of Palestine? Not so fast
Another step European states have been threatening is to recognise the state of Palestine as a response to Israel destroying any chances of the two-state solution. While such recognition would have no practical impact on the ground, it is still considered a strong symbolic gesture to show solidarity with the Palestinians.
Saudi Arabia has been pushing European states to recognise Palestine at the now-cancelled Saudi-French conference at the UN in June. The conference was initially meant to happen during a ceasefire in Gaza to discuss the enclave’s reconstruction and the future of Palestinians and Israelis.
However, after Netanyahu resumed the genocide in March, recognition became the only substantial thing to aim for at the conference to make a grand announcement.
France killed that idea by conditioning recognition of Palestine on disarming Hamas, exiling its leadership and members out of Gaza, and preventing it from playing any future role in Palestinian governance.
A European diplomat told The New Arab, “Israel has no right to demand disarming Palestinians, since the ICJ ruled its occupation illegal, which gives it no right to self-defence in the occupied territory while it gives Palestinians the right to armed resistance”.
The French government knows Hamas would not accept those prerequisites, as the group conditions its disarmament and dissolution on Israel ending the occupation, which makes such French conditions a trick to avoid recognising Palestine by using Hamas as an excuse.
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Jessica Buxbaum
What explains the new EU position?
In late May, Palestinians in Gaza felt encouraged by a sudden slew of strong-worded European statements calling out Israel’s starvation policy. Even Germany broke its silence and said Israel’s war “can no longer be justified”.
“It seems like there is some momentum building up,” Ibrahim, a computer engineer in northern Gaza, told The New Arab. That hope, however, quickly died out when no action followed this rare European criticism of Israel.
What pushed European leaders to speak up after nearly 20 months of livestreamed genocide was not a sudden realisation of atrocities being committed but rather stemmed from two other reasons.
First, European leaders expected Gaza coverage and solidarity with the enclave to fade out. However, Israel overreaching and escalating atrocities did the opposite. “The shift in public opinion across Europe after 19 months of seeing babies blown to pieces” created pressure on EU leaders to break their silence, a senior European diplomat told The New Arab.
Second was Israeli leaders becoming “unhinged” by a emboldened sense of invincibility and impunity following Trump’s victory, that they “don’t even recognise anymore that saying openly you will commit an indisputable war crime that cannot be rationalised by your most fervent advocate is different from merely committing those same war crimes while denying them,” a senior European diplomat told The New Arab.
The diplomat explained that European leaders previously tried to brush off or trivialise Israeli genocidal incitement, such as “human animals” or “Amalek”, as “rage in reaction to [Oct 7]”.
However, more than 19 months later, the continuation of those statements made it increasingly difficult for the EU to look the other way. Especially since Israeli announcements such as blocking humanitarian aid or “destroying everything that remains of Gaza” are “much more precise and specific, also in the legal sense” than dehumanising incitement.
The diplomat explained that “the same happened when Gaddafi gave his famous speech that triggered the NATO intervention and made it difficult even for Russia and China to veto the UNSC resolution”.
In the case of Israel, however, experts believe European governments are still trying to buy time through rhetorical statements that serve as PR stunts to save face and register opposition to Israel’s genocide, while doing nothing serious to stop it.
In the end, the UK sanctions on Ben-Gvir – like the EU’s toothless reviews, the suspended trade negotiations, and the hollow gestures toward Palestinian recognition – are not bold ruptures with the status quo but deft manoeuvres to preserve it.
They isolate caricatures of extremism to shield the broader machinery of state violence and settler colonialism from meaningful scrutiny. By targeting individuals rather than institutions, statements rather than actions, and optics rather than accountability, Western powers continue to treat Palestinian suffering as a crisis to manage, not a moral emergency to end.
Until these governments are willing to confront the totality of Israel’s apartheid regime – and their own complicity in it – such gestures will remain little more than political theatre, staged not for justice, but for plausible deniability.
Muhammad Shehada is a Palestinian writer and analyst from Gaza and the EU Affairs Manager at Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
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In Gaza, the endless buzz of drones reminds children that any moment could be their last. The smell of blood, ash, and gunpowder clings permanently to their clothes. Families vanish in a flash — every day. Entire generations trapped in cycles of trauma, sleeplessness, and fear. This terror has been deliberately imposed for decades by precious Israelis now trembling in bomb shelters from the missiles they invited — and deserve. No fucking sympath
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Israel’s Channel 12, citing Israeli ambulances, says more than 30 Israelis suffered from panic attacks after an Iranian missile fell in Beersheba.
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LEAKED AUDIO: AIPAC’s CEO brags about how AIPAC controls Trump’s National Security officials such as Marco Rubio, John Ratcliffe, and Mike Waltz (who was caught SPYING)
America is occupied by lsraeI.
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Iran missiles reaps apart hotel bunker in Israel.
Are they still mocking starved Palestinians in Gaza?
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Literally, people are enjoying this war
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He dreamt of becoming a football player before the israelis amputated his legs, says @Abu_Salah9: can he still play for @LFC without his feet?
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Did you know that the population of Tehran in 2025 is estimated at almost 10 million for the metropolis, with the greater metropolitan area reaching up to 17 million people, of which up to 185,000 are Christians?
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BANNON: My issue isn’t whether Iran has a nuke. My issue is that Netanyahu, for his own political dilemma, created a false sense of urgency. He pushed the salesman upsell—we have to have regime change. This is the Iraq War all over again. It’s phony and obvious.
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Israel Genocide Tracker@trackingisrael
British businessman David Kovler posted a new video today, showing a soldier in Gaza thanking him for raising donations that provide gear and food to active units involved in the ongoing mass demolition of ethnically cleansed Palestinian homes.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936107512241049795
Israel Genocide Tracker@trackingisrael
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British settler David Kovler, originally from London, has been leading an online fundraising campaign to supply Israeli drones and military gear used in the Gaza genocide. Recentl
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She is the greatest mother in the world
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3 months ago, Zohran Mamdani confronted Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan — as most Democrats twiddled their thumbs after Mahmoud Khalil was taken.
“How many more New Yorkers will you detain?!”
“Do you believe in the First Amendment?!”
Today, Khalil is freed.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936136600229924916
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The children of Gaza look down from heaven as we continue to destroy their country.
Free Palestine
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936278758358761609
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5 days difference challenge
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936275441091809659
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“Most of what is being heard in the mainstream media about Iran is one big LIE. Iran is not about to surrender. It’s not going to crumble. There will be no uprising.”
@DougAMacgregor noted that these same voices were the ones claiming Russia was going to fall apart in 2022…
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936063409927213489
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More than ever, this generation is awake, and unafraid to show the world they stand with justice and humanity.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936293071437938777
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I’ve felt many joys in life —
But nothing compares to the satisfaction of watching Israel fall.
It hits different. 
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936083860153933974
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“Same old lies, new target!” People aren’t buying the script this time.
New York City protesters slam US war propaganda as Israel strikes Iran.
“Iran didn’t start this but they want another Iraq, another Libya, another Syria,” one shouted.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1935993251640517060
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Mossad-linked agents set fires in the mountains of Tehran, staging a fake strike to spread fear and provoke chaos.
Follow http://t.me/presstv
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936089692249915791
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Protesters took to the streets in Brussels yesterday to show their support for the people of Gaza
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936323261056352447
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Suhayb, Ruhaf, and Rima Abdel Rahman Hamdiya were murdered by Israel while they were starving.
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BREAKING : Iran has unveiled the HESA Gaza 149, a long-range UAV capable of flying up to 2,000 km with an endurance of 35 hours.
Power isn’t claimed, it’s shown
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936186399692116207
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Love for Iran and the Leader knows no age!
85-year-old Iranian woman at today’s rally in Tehran:
“I’m here for the Leader (Ayatollah Khamenei), for Islam, and for our brave youth. Our hearts are strong — Israel can’t do a thing to us.” Follow http://t.me/presstv
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1936041551949709766
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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:
We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury, proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, maybe being a BRICS partner…
Ikus Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka
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Esadazu arren, zer da gu euskaldunok egiten ari garena eta zer egingo dugun
(Pinturak: Mikel Torka)
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1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)
